| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | Byron to John Hanson, [? November 1799]: 'I congratulate you on Capt. Hanson's being appointed commander of the Brazen... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | In letter to Edward Noel Long, 23 February 1807 Byron transcribes lines 91-96 of William Cowper, "Friendship" (as in 1... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | William Cowper | Friendship | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Elizabeth Pigot, 2 August 1807: 'I have now a Review before me entitled, "Literary Recreations" where my Bard... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Monthly Literary Recreations | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Earl of Clare, 20 August 1807: 'I hope this Letter will find you safe, I saw in a Morning paper, a long a... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | [morning newspaper] | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 10 August 1811, within two weeks of his mother's death: 'I am very lonely, & should think ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I hav... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | [translation of Juvenal] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I hav... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | Lady Jane Grey, a Tale; and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 4 December 1811: 'I have read Watson to Gibbon. He proves nothing, so I am where I was, ver... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Richard Watson | Apology for Christianity, in a Series of Letters to Edward Gibbon, Esq. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 8 December 1811: 'I have gotten a book by Sir William Drummond (printed, but not published),... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sir William Drummond | Aedipus Judaicus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 15 December 1811: 'I have been living quietly, reading Sir W. Drummond's book on the bible... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sir William Drummond | Aedipus Judaicus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [lines on Dermody] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [lines in the cave at Seaham] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Bernard Barton | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Bernard Barton | Metrical Effusions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Edward Daniel Clarke, 26 June 1812: 'My dear Sir, - Will you accept my very sincere congratulations on your s... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Edward Daniel Clarke | Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa (vol 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | various | Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | various | [Sunday papers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 17 October 1812, on reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: '... my address has been ... m... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | various | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 October 1812, on writing by Annabella Milbanke that she has forwarded to him: '... the spe... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [biography] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 October 1812: '... I see by the papers Ld. and Ly. Cowper are returned to Herts.' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 November 1812: 'I am still here only sad in the prospect of going [from home of Lord and L... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 22 November 1812: 'I have in charge a curious and very long MS. poem written by Lord Brooke (the... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lord Brooke | [untitled manuscript] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 11 January 1813: 'I have been looking over my Kinsham premises which are close to a church an... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | [epitaphs] | Manuscript: tombstone epitaphs |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 21 April 1813: 'I see the Examiner threatens some observations upon you next week ... ' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Leigh Hunt | Examiner, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | In letter from Byron to Thomas Moore: 'When Byron read these verses aloud to Moore and Rogers, they all three broke do... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lord Thurlow | "When Rogers ... " | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Galt, 8 June 1813: 'I have to thank you for a most agreeable present [apparently a copy of his Letters f... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | John Galt | Letters from the Levant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Ure... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | advertisement for William Wadd, Practical Observations on the best mode of curing Strictures... | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Ure... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | advertisement for Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some Strictures on the Poetry of Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, and Others | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 13 June 1813: 'I have read the strictures which are just enough - & not grossly abusive - in ver... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some Strictures on the Poetry of Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, and Others | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'In a "mail-coach" copy of the Edinburgh, I perceive the Giaour is 2d article.' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813, in description of Newstead Abbey: 'I remember, when about fifteen, reading your... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'I hope you are going on with your grand coup - pray do - or that damned Lucien... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lucien Buonaparte | Charlemagne | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 August 1813: 'If you want any more books [on the Orient], there is "Castellan's Moeurs des O... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | A. L. Castellan | Moeurs, usages costumes des Othomans, et abrege de leur histoire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813, from Aston Hall, Rotherham (where staying with Sir James Wedderburn Webste... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Grimm | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron thanks J. Thomson (unidentified) for volume of poems, 27 September 1813: 'I have derived considerable pleasure f... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | J. Thomson | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1813: 'I have received and read the British Review ... ' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | British Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Dr Samuel Butler, 20 October 1813: 'The little that I have seen by stealth and accident of Charlemagne quite ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lucien Buonaparte | Charlemagne | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In postscript to letter written by Byron to John Murray, 3 am [29 November 1813]: 'I have got out of my bed (in which ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | [epigram on J. W. Ward] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Madame de Stael, 30 November 1813, in praise of her De L'Allemagne: 'few days have passed since its publicati... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | De L'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Zachary Macaulay (editor of the Christian Observer), 3 December 1813: 'Sir / - I have just finished the perus... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Christian Observer | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1813: 'I have redde through your Persian Tale - I have taken ye. liberty of making so... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Persian Tale | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 December 1813: 'I have met with an odd reflection in Grimm ... "Many people have the reputati... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchoir Grimm | Correspondance Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'I never in my life read a composition [of his own], save to Hodg... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): '... [Madame de Stael] writes octavos, and talks folios. I have ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'Read Burns to-day.' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Robert Burns | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813: 'I wish I could settle to reading again, - my l... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 22 November 1813: 'I remember the effect of the first Edinburgh R... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 15 October 1816, from Milan: 'What has delighted me most is a manuscript collection (preserved... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lucretia de Borgia | [unknown] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 24 February 1817: 'I saw in Switzerland in the autumn the poems of [James Wedderburn] Webst... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | James Wedderburn Webster | Waterloo and Other Poems | Print: Advertisement, Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 6 June 1819: 'I found ... such a pretty epitaph in the Certosa Cimetery -- or rathe... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | n/a | n/a | Manuscript: Unknown, tombstone epitaphs |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: "In the year 1814, Moore ... and I were going t... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | n/a | Javanese newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Sheppard, who had sent him a prayer apparently written for him (Byron) by his (Sheppard's) late wife, 8 ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | John Sheppard | [unknown] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Edward J. Dawkins, 17 May 1822: "I return you the paper with many thanks for that and your letter. -- It is t... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | n/a | [English newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 28 May 1823: "I read your various speeches in the Times." | George Gordon, Lord Byron | n/a | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | John Locke | Treatise on the Reasonableness of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | J.C. de Sismondi | history of the Italian republics;: Being a view of the origin, progress, and fall of Italian freedom, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Jean Charles de Sismondi | Litt?rature du midi de l'Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Watson | [book on Philip of Spain] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | William Coxe | History of the House of Austria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | William Coxe | Memoirs of the Bourbon Kings of Spain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Rene Aubert de Vertot | [book(s) on Revolutions] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | [30 vol. History of 'Conjurazioni] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Anabella Milbanke, 28 Nov 1814]. 'I think Southey's "Roderick" as near perfection as poetry can ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Robert Southey | Roderick | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'they read books together and discussed them; Scott's "Lord of the Isles" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He was reading an article by Darwin on Diseased Volition' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown Darwin | [article on 'Diseased Volition'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever ac... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |